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The real answer is that there isn't always any way to tell if an image is AI generated, and as time passes while there may always be tells for poorly done images the percentage of generated images displaying those tells will continue to rapidly shrink.
You can only find signs an image was AI generated in images that display those signs. That doesn't mean you're weeding them all out, or even 1% of them.
Even if you spend a month looking at every tiny detail of an image, unless you physically witnessed it's creation or it's something with known provenance (i.e. the Mona Lisa) you can never say for certain that it is not AI generated.
I find it pretty obvious, the camera focal points are off and the overcast lighting without shadows is a dead giveaway.
The times it is pretty obvious, it is pretty obvious. Those are not all of the times.
It's about as ridiculous as "is it Photoshopped?" or "Is it airbrushed?"
You can't tell
That doesn't mean no one else can.
The vast majority of people can't tell a male chick from a female chick, which is super important for egg farmers.
But, some people can.
And even tho they can't explain how they can tell, we know they can tell, because chicks grow up into hens and roosters. And they can tell almost instantly
Stop thinking everyone is exactly like you, no one is like anyone else, we're all snowflakes with innumerable avenues of variation.
Well, now I just think there's two things you don't understand...
Ah yes, the "golden ear". And how much do the services of one of these magically gifted witch-finders cost?